Overview
I broke up the cartoon into 3 parts because I have a short attention span I think and it seemed long as 1 episode. I had planned on having the kids do live segments in-between them and putting it together as their own show on a DVD.
Concept
The action figure is now a giant and is rampaging through the town (or as Dexter says in this episode "ramp-a-jing"). The President, who at the time was George W., called Dexter from his ranch to ask him to stop this menace from taking over the world.
Art
So as I had said, I was inking all of this by hand with a brush and ink. But now when I look at it, I wasn't consistent with the line thickness when I was drawing closeups or larger items, like the giant's foot.
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| Thin outlined foot |
I inked the lines thinner for some reason, giving it the opposite effect. Instead of looking bigger or grander they almost look disjointed to the scenes, even kind of like they're farther away then they should be.
Animation
As I posted earlier, I was trying to animate most of this on paper. Here's the sample drawings of Dexter answering the phone in a 2 part animation.
Here is the first part, Dexter grabbing the phone.
Audio
We would record the voices line by line. Then I cut the storyboard scenes into a video editor, make them the length I thought looked right, and match the audio up to the right parts. After all that I added the music where I thought it should go.
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| Storyboard page example |
Cartoon
Here is part 2 of the cartoon.
Action! It figures pt. 2 (2003)
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